p. 23 | Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 49. (12/5/1907)

Earlier text: The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Review and Herald Publishing Association

Canvassers' Institute

By HORACE G. MILLER

THE canvassers' institute for North Carolina will be held at Hildebran, beginning at 7 P. M., December 17, and continuing till Jan. 12, 1908.

All those planning to engage in the canvassing work in this conference the coming season should by all means attend this institute. Shall we have your co-operation? We pray that we may. My address is Gastonia, N. C.

HORACE G. MILLER, State Agent.

Manitoba, Notice!

By W. M. ADAMS

THE fifth annual session of the Manitoba Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at the Northwestern Training-school, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, December 27–31. The first meeting will convene at seven o'clock Friday evening.

At this session all the regular conference officers will be elected, including trustees for the legal part, and such other business will receive attention as may properly come before the delegates.

Each church is entitled to one delegate without respect to numbers, and to one delegate to every seven members or fraction thereof. We hope also to see representatives from the various companies and isolated Sabbath-keepers. Let each church attend at once to the election of its delegates, and forward the credentials of the same to the conference secretary. W. M. ADAMS, President.

Winter Term at Union College

By C. C. Lewis

THE winter term at Union College begins Wednesday, December 11. Classes will start in geography, civil government, elocution, public speaking, business correspondence, elementary physiology, hydrotherapy, analytical geometry, and New Testament epistles. In bookkeeping, typewriting, and music, students do individual work, beginning one time as well as another. In addition, the entire program of regular classes running through the year is open for the selection of studies, and so many subjects are offered in so many grades that we are able to find work adapted to the needs of all who come.

This fact, together with our large attendance, makes it inadvisable to attempt to hold the special course announced in the last calendar. Our school Homes are full, but there are plenty of good rooms in the village near by. The new power-house is nearly finished, and we are receiving heat, light, and water from our own plant. Union College is doing excellent work in all departments, and a good spirit prevails.

For calendar or further information, address the undersigned, at College View, Neb. C. C. LEWIS, President.

E. F. COLLIER

By E. F. Collier

GREENMAN.—Died at his home near Sturgis, Mich., Alonzo Greenman, aged 68 years and twenty-four days. Brother Greenman was born in New York State. He served the cause of his nation during the Civil War. He was a staunch believer in the Seventh-day Adventist faith—a keeper of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. He leaves a sorrowing wife, an aged mother, and two brothers. The funeral service was conducted in the home by the writer.

E. F. COLLIER

Beulah Elizabeth Hanna

By AGNES LONG

HANNA.—Died at Wilsey, Kan., July 11, 1907, our little darling, Beulah Elizabeth Hanna, aged 2 years, 10 months, and 25 days. Beulah was apparently in excellent health when her mother put her to bed, but in less than half an hour she was taken with severe spasms, and died in eleven hours, though the best medical aid obtainable was summoned. She was the only daughter of Brother and Sister Elmer Hanna, who hope to meet their darling when Jesus comes to make up his jewels. AGNES LONG.

F. D. STARR

By F. D. Starr

CROUSE.—Died near Croton, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1907, of lingering consumption and heart difficulty, Sister Susan H. Crouse, née Baker. She was born in Virginia, Feb. 28, 1839, but from childhood had lived in Ohio. Sister Crouse was early converted, and about forty years ago accepted present truth under the labors of Elders R. J. Lawrence and I. D. Van Horn. To this cause she was ever true, contributing liberally to its support. She fell asleep with strong hope of a part in the first resurrection. A husband, one daughter, two sons, and four grandchildren mourn, but in hope. Brother B. B. Noftsger and wife (the daughter of the deceased) were present from Toronto at the funeral. Text chosen by the deceased, used by the writer, 1 Thess. 4:13-18.

F. D. STARR

Trueman Ramsay

By Mrs. Lee S. Wheeler

RAMSAY.—Died at home in Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 16, 1907, Trueman Ramsay, the last of his father's family, after an illness of about two weeks, aged 79 years and 6 months. He embraced present truth in Ohio under the preaching of Elder M. E. Cornell, in 1858, remaining steadfast in the faith of Seventh-day Adventists until his death. He was an almost continuous reader of the REVIEW from its earliest publication, and was greatly interested in the progress of the Lord's cause. A wife, a daughter in Massachusetts, and a son in Texas survive him, though not to mourn as those without hope. Visiting at home before returning to Massachusetts from the Mount Vernon convention, we were glad to minister to a parent in his last hours, though there was no plan of ours in the shaping of events as they took their course. Funeral service was conducted by the pastor, M. N. Campbell, at the Tabernacle, using as a basis of well-chosen remarks, Num. 23:10. After many unmistakable evidences of sympathy from true brethren, sisters, and friends who anticipated our wants at almost every turn, we laid father to rest in Oakhill until the time expressed in his last words, “Meet the loved ones in the resurrection.” MRS. LEE S. WHEELER.

The Age of Commercialism

By Editor

Our first-page illustration shows the answer of the architect to the demands of modern commercialism as exemplified in a great city. It is the building of the City Investment Company of New York City, and is the largest office building in the world, containing half a million square feet of floor space. It is thirty-three stories high, and its foundation rests on solid rock eighty feet below the street level. Twenty-three elevators are necessary to handle the transportation of persons doing business in this building. There are two other great office buildings in New York City that are taller than this, the Singer Building and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, but neither of them contains as much floor space or cubic capacity. Who can look upon the multiplication of these mammoth structures without feeling that this is the age of commercialism, the age of the heaping together of treasure foretold by the apostle, and an incontestable sign of the last days? No such buildings as these, for the purposes of wealth getting, were ever before constructed in the history of man.

A UNITED and well-organized campaign has already been entered upon by the ministers of Washington in the interest of the better observance of Sunday in the District of Columbia. The plans contemplate a mass-meeting, sermons on the same day by all the clergymen of the city upon the observance of Sunday, the distribution of literature upon the subject, and a determined effort to induce the next Congress to pass a Sunday law for the District of Columbia. In view of the prominent part which the Seventh-day Adventists and the Jews acted nearly three years ago in the defeat of the effort to introduce religious instruction into the public schools of Washington, the leaders of this Sunday-observance movement decided not to invite representatives of these two religious bodies to attend their conferences. This new effort to commit Congress to Sunday legislation will call for a vigorous campaign in behalf of the truth, and the work has already been entered upon by the Religious Liberty Bureau. The progress of this whole movement will be reported from time to time in the columns of the REVIEW.

Review and Herald Trustees

By Editor

The Board of Trustees of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, as now constituted, consists of the following persons: I. H. Evans, G. A. Irwin, W. W. Prescott, S. N. Curtiss, W. J. Fitzgerald, G. B. Thompson, H. R. Salisbury, and T. E. Bowen. Since the annual meeting the following officers have been chosen: W. W. Prescott, President; I. H. Evans, Vice-President; W. B. Walters, Secretary; S. N. Curtiss, Treasurer; E. R. Brown, Auditor. S. N. Curtiss was chosen as Business Manager.

We resume this week Mrs. E. G. White’s series of articles on the Return of the Exiles.

Special Issue of the Youth's Instructor

By Editor

A FULL statement concerning the special issue of the Youth's Instructor, and the plans for its enlargement, is made on the second page of this paper. We invite our readers to give attention to it.

Brethren Visit Washington

Quite a number of the brethren who had been attending the Atlantic Union Conference, including nearly all the delegates from Ohio, made a brief stay in Washington last week before returning to their fields of labor.

Selling Liberty for Korean School Work

A SISTER who was attending the Atlantic Union Conference went out one evening during the meeting and sold one hundred copies of Liberty at ten cents a copy. Five dollars of the profits of this evening's work was donated for the school work in Korea. This experience may be suggestive to many readers of the REVIEW.

Teachers Called to Australia

IN response to a call for teachers from Australia, Brother W. E. Robbins and wife left Washington last week, en route to the Cooranbong school. Brother Robbins has been an assistant in the General Conference Office, and Sister Robbins was matron in the Foreign Mission Seminary. Their services were valued here, but calls from the fields must always take precedence.

Children's Week-of-Prayer Lessons

The children's lessons printed in the week-of-prayer number are a consecutive study of the Lord's prayer. It will be noticed by those giving these studies that the lesson numbered five, on "Thy Kingdom Come," should follow lesson two. By some oversight the lesson was transposed. These studies should prove a blessing to our children during the week of special services. They were prepared by Sister L. Flora Plummer, of the Sabbath-school Department.

Completing the Large Fund

How many of those who have not paid their portion of the large fund will follow the suggestion in the first article on page 7 of this issue? There is no doubt that it would finish the task at once, and no one would miss the amount given.

Professor Kern Visits Washington

AMONG those who attended the recent session of the Atlantic Union Conference was Prof. M. E. Kern, the chairman of the Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department of the General Conference. After the close of the conference Professor Kern came to Washington to confer with the General Conference Committee concerning the work of his department.

Death of Elder W. D. Curtis

THE following note was received by the editor last Friday from Elder Allen Moon, the president of the Lake Union Conference:—

DEAR BROTHER: I write this to inform you of the death of Elder W. D. Curtis, which occurred at half-past eight o’clock, evening after the Sabbath last. The cause of his death was heart failure. It seems that he had been afflicted with heart difficulty for some time, but this was unknown to his friends. I will send you a full statement of the case within a few days for publication in the REVIEW.

Brother Curtis was the educational secretary of the Lake Union Conference, and resided at Berrien Springs, Mich., where his death occurred. He was an active worker, and will be greatly missed by his associates.

A Special Appointment

THE General Conference Committee has appointed the first Sabbath of the week of prayer, December 14, as a day of fasting and prayer. We invite all our people to make this day one of most earnest and united intercession. We need not here attempt to refer to the large volume of Scripture teaching, showing that, as the Lord's people come to places where more than ordinary blessings are needed, they are to seek God with fasting and prayer. The time of crisis in the work and in the world, so long looked for by this people, is visibly closing in. In some lands of enforced military service our people are just now under the severest pressure, owing to determined efforts to compel our youth to give up the Sabbath. Details are supplied in a letter being sent to conference workers and church elders. We should earnestly seek God in behalf of our brethren, that fortitude may be theirs in sorest trial, and that deliverance may come in such a way as will glorify God. These things, however, show how quickly the final struggle may break upon us in all lands. In America and in many countries the Sunday-law issue is being pressed with unprecedented force. Are we ready for the last scenes in the history of the message? All will say that we need the special blessing of God to fit us for the last days in the closing work. We must arouse, cut loose from the world, put away sin, and seek continually for the converting power of God in our daily lives, in our families, and in our churches. The message is to be borne to every community about us. The great mission field must be warned. There is a call for laborers and for means beyond all ordinary effort. The situation solemnly appeals to us unitedly to seek God, as a people face to face with eternity, and with a great and definite work committed to us. We urge that Sabbath, December 14, be observed as a day of solemn fasting and prayer among our people everywhere.

GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.

The Architect's Answer to the Demands of Congested City Life. (See last page.)